Word: stickering
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...Chevrolet Celebrity, deadheading back to Boston from Logan Airport, is pulled over by a Boston policeman. The offense: an expired inspection sticker; the fine: $50. But not for a car bearing license plate STATE 1 that moments earlier had Massachusetts' favorite son riding in the rear passenger seat. A warning will...
...summer travel season gets under way, many Americans are suddenly feeling nostalgic for the airfares they paid just a vacation or two ago. Since January, ticket prices have risen an average of more than 15%, inducing a form of sticker shock in consumers who have grown accustomed to deep discounts in the decade since airline deregulation. But the kind of cutthroat competition that produced those fares is fading fast. After a severe shake-out in which some 214 airlines disappeared or merged into hardier carriers, the industry is concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. Gone from the runways...
Saundra Graham, a 12-term state representative, lost the Democratic nomination for her seat to political newcomer Alvin E. Thompson in September primaries. After waging a vigorous write-in and sticker campaign to win back the seat, she lost again to Thompson in November's general election...
NOTHING in the world is more humiliating than being passed on the slopes by a five-year-old tot on skis with a sticker on the back of his jacket reading "Eat my exhaust, sucker!" Unless of course, you count the myriad pre-schoolers who sidle up to you in the ski lodge, look at your ski pass and yell to their moms, "He's only a novice! He's only a novice...
...wind: THE BILLIARD CLUB. Yet the scene beneath it is not a dimly lighted doorway, attended by a tattooed bouncer, but monstrous picture windows straight out of Trump Tower. Behind the glass, peacock feathers wave from porcelain planters. Within, fashionable men and women lay cues to green felt. A sticker at the door indicates that, yes, the club does take American Express. Welcome to the new world of pool...